Europol announced the arrest of four individuals on Thursday and the disruption of over 100 servers in what it described as the largest operation against botnets deploying ransomware. 'Operation ...

If you (like me) have been under the impression that botnets are no big deal, it’s time to realize what a big threat they are to legitimate businesses and organizations. Corporate PCs that are turned ...

‘Operation Endgame’ is an ongoing effort to disrupt botnets, malware droppers and malware-as-a-service. An international coalition of police organized by the European Union’s justice and police ...

Botnets are a growing threat, but there are six steps that security professionals can take to fight back. Web-filtering services are one of the best ways to fight bots. These services scan for Web ...

Botnets are networks of computers taken hostage by malware that controls them and makes them send spam and act in other nefarious ways. They’re growing in size, number and impact. A botnet may be ...

During every quarter last year, between 10% and 16% of organizations had DNS traffic originating on their networks towards command-and-control (C2) servers associated with known botnets and various ...

Federal authorities, along with the Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit, the Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center and other private-sector partners, say they have shut down more than 1 ...

Activity from IP addresses in Ukraine and Russia has shown a substantial spike in malware, helping botnets spread since February 2022. The data comes from security researchers at Top10VPN, who shared ...

Threatening botnets can be created with little code experience, Akamai finds Your email has been sent Botnets, especially botnets-for-hire, are lowering the bar to technology access for those seeking ...

Malwarebytes Releases Global State of Malware Report, Finds 2016 as Year Threat Reality Catches Up to Threat Hype New global cybercriminal attack patterns emerge as ransomware, ad fraud and botnets ...